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The bandolim (Portuguese for "mandolin") was a favourite instrument within the Portuguese bourgeoisie of the 19th century, but its rapid spread took it to other places, joining other instruments. Today you can see mandolins as part of the traditional and folk culture of Portuguese singing groups and the majority of the mandolin scene in ...
Mandolin awareness in the United States blossomed in the 1880s, as the instrument became part of a fad that continued into the mid-1920s. [14] [15] According to Clarence L. Partee a publisher in the BMG movement (banjo, mandolin and guitar), the first mandolin made in the United States was made in 1883 or 1884 by Joseph Bohmann, who was an established maker of violins in Chicago. [16]
The export market for mandolins from Italy dried up around 1815, and when Carmine de Laurentiis wrote a mandolin method in 1874, the Music World magazine wrote that the mandolin was "out of date." [ 48 ] Salvador Léonardi mentioned this decline in his 1921 book, Méthode pour Banjoline ou Mandoline-Banjo , saying that the mandolin had "lost ...
The Mandolin World; Mandolin YouTube Channel; Accademia Mandolinistica Pugliese (Puglia-Italy) List of mandolin method books from 1629 to present; List of composers for the mandolin with more than 1900 names. Includes mandolin solos, ensembles, concertos, chamber music, and bluegrass. Japanese website, but needed parts are in English
Irish bouzouki (Octave mandolin) Italy: Calabrian Lira (Calabria) Chitarra battente ("knocking guitar") Chitarrone; Liuto cantabile (Naples) Mandolin (Mandolin family)
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
Photo illustration: Jack Forbes/Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images (3) (Getty Images) Mass shootings in the U.S. are once again on the rise — and countries around the world are taking notice.